Blue Valentine (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Blue Valentine |
| Original title | Blue Valentine |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Derek Cianfrance |
| script | Derek Cianfrance Cami Delavigne Joey Curtis |
| production |
Lynette Howell Alex Orlovsky Jamie Patricof |
| music | Grizzly Bear |
| camera | Andrij Parekh |
| cut |
Jim Helton Ron Patane |
| occupation | |
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Blue Valentine is an American romantic drama directed by Derek Cianfrance from 2010. It premiered at the 26th Sundance Film Festival . The German cinema release was on August 4, 2011.
The film was also shown at the 2010 Cannes International Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category .
action
The film paints the picture of a love, but does not show its stages in chronological order. Dean, a young high school dropout who works as a movership in New York City , happens to meet Cindy, a medical student who lives with her parents in Pennsylvania and looks after her grandmother. He falls in love with her and, after vigorous wooing, conquers her heart too. When Cindy finds out that she is unintentionally pregnant from her previous boyfriend Bobby, with whom she was only recently, she is unsure at first and wants to have the child aborted, but has the abortion canceled at the last moment. Dean can give her support in this situation. The two decide to get married and start a family. Both come from unhappy, broken families. Before the wedding, Bobby, who knows nothing about the pregnancy, looks for Dean at his place of work and beats him up.
Dean and Cindy live with their daughter Frankie in Pennsylvania about five years later . He works as a painter, she as a nurse in a clinic. Dean is satisfied with his simple life as a craftsman and father of a family, which allows him “to have a beer at eight o'clock in the morning and to spend a lot of time with his daughter”. Cindy sees more potential in him, which she doesn't use in her eyes. She is unhappy with the life they both lead. In order to give their crumbling relationship another chance, the couple spends a night in a hotel at Dean's spontaneous idea after an argument, but after both get drunk and attempt to talk again ends in an argument. Cindy leaves the hotel early in the morning after a call from the clinic, drives to work and leaves Dean asleep with just a note. He then shows up at the clinic, drunk and angry. When Cindy tries to send him home without listening to him, a heated argument ensues. The attending doctor, who had often made suggestive remarks to her in the past, is beaten by Dean. Thereupon Cindy is fired, she leaves the clinic with Dean and demands a divorce. Finally, Dean desperately asks Cindy to try again together, especially for Frankie, who is very attached to Dean. He reminds her of her marriage vows and wants to change for her the way she wants. Cindy can no longer stand the state of the relationship and asks for distance. Although Frankie urges her father to stay, Dean fulfills Cindy's wish and eventually leaves.
Reviews
The film and especially the two main actors received mostly very good reviews.
“If you love for the wrong reasons: The relationship drama Blue Valentine explores in harrowing scenes how a couple comes together not through feelings but rather through circumstances. Hollywood stars Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling are pushing the boundaries of what is bearable. "
“[...] the view of the relationship between the two is completely free of clichés, unsentimental and yet unconditionally compassionate. This is how Cianfrance succeeds in making a very sincere, very adult film about a love that has been burdened with a heavy mortgage from the beginning, and the two weak people who shoulder it. This is a rarity in the cinema. Blue Valentine is a rare treasure. "
Awards
Michelle Williams was both at the Academy Awards in 2011 as well as the Golden Globe Awards 2011 nominated as best actress, but had in both cases Natalie Portman beaten that the price for the film Black Swan received.
Director Cianfrance received at the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards the award for Most Promising Filmmaker ( Vielversprechendster filmmaker ).
music
Ryan Gosling wrote and sang some of the songs himself. The band Grizzly Bear composed the soundtrack; it was released on Lakeshore Records .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Blue Valentine . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 575 K).
- ^ Hannah Pilarczyk: Cinema drama "Blue Valentine": love in tatters. In: spiegel.de. Der Spiegel, August 2, 2011, accessed on August 22, 2011 .
- ↑ Alexandra Seitz: love drama with Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling. (No longer available online.) In: film.fluter.de. Berliner Zeitung , August 2011, archived from the original on January 28, 2012 ; Retrieved August 22, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Blue Valentine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blue Valentine at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Blue Valentine at Metacritic (English)